Category Archives: SWN Festival

Higher Education and Live Music in Wales: Future Developments

Well, I am coming toward the end of the research into the relationships between live music and higher education in Wales. With the report due at the end of this month, I thought I would provide some comments below. Very … Continue reading

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Everybody is, Everybody is: SWN festival session 3

This 3rd session from the SWN conference at the ATRiuM in Cardiff  is hosted by Huw Williams and features Andrew Dubber (New Musical Strategies), Colin Rice (We 7), Tejas Mistry (Indistore) and Ewan Grant (Xtaster/Death of Glory Music) as panellists. … Continue reading

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SWN Festival Seminar 2: How to Have A Number One Album with Scouting For Girls

This post features a pod-cast of Roy, Greg and Pete from ‘Scouting For Girls‘ being interviewed by Radio One’s Huw Stephens. The session was one of a number of conference themes that I implemented as part of the 2008 SWN … Continue reading

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Why don’t more bands come to Wales: Promoting Live Music In Wales

On Friday November 14th, the ATRiuM’s Music Academy, Centre For Small Nations and the Welsh Music Foundation hosted a day of music industry seminars as part of the Cardiff based SWN festival. Over the next several weeks I will upload … Continue reading

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